A Hidden Split in Our Ancestry Changes Our Understanding of Early Human Movement

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just ...
Ancient Origins

New DNA Analysis Places First Australians' Arrival at 60,000 Years Ago

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...
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New DNA Evidence Rewrites The Story Of How Humans First Reached Australia

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...
JSTOR Daily

Perceptions of Archaeology in Australia Amongst Educated Young Australians

A survey of Western Australian undergraduate students asking them about their knowledge of and interest in archaeology as well as their beliefs in other explanations for the past was undertaken in ...
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Archaeology of Oceania : Australia and the Pacific Islands / edited by Ian Lilley

Archaeology in Oceania : themes and issues / Ian Lilley -- Revisiting the past : changing interpretations of Pleistocene settlement subsistence and demography in Northern Australia / Sue O'Connor and ...
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The archaeology of culturally modified trees: Indigenous economic diversification within colonial intercultural settings in Cape York Peninsula, northeastern Australia

Developing holistic accounts of indigenous peoples' lifeways in colonial intercultural settings requires data that provide insights into patterns of landscape use and variations in social, economic, ...
RealClearScience

Submerged 7,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Australian Site Found

For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived. Archaeologists could only speculate about how people used ...
Archaeology

Early Nineteenth-Century Pub Uncovered in Australia

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—Traces of one of Australia’s first pubs have been uncovered in Parramatta, now a suburb west of Sydney, by a team of researchers led by archaeologist Ted Higginbotham. According to ...
Archaeology

Sediment Core Offers Clues to Fate of Australia’s Megafauna

VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA—The International Business Times reports that scientists led by Sander van der Kaars of Monash University and Gifford Miller of the University of Colorado Boulder collected a ...
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Australian archaeological startup raises $679,000 to rebuild ancient sites in VR

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Archaeology isn’t an easy job, but it becomes easier in virtual reality, ...
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Submerged 7,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Australian Site Found

For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived. Archaeologists could only speculate about how people used ...